One week to go!  Remember to vote early and vote often!! (stolen from Al Capone)
 

Has it really been two months?  I've been so busy here with the kids, the hubby and the baby that I've lost complete track of time!

It's finally autumn!  This is my favorite time of year!  The temperatures here have finally cooled, the trees are gorgeous and my favorite holiday, Hallowe'en, is coming!!!  We've been doing some painting and cleaning here at Chez Disarray.  Want to see some pictures?

Here is a photo of my newly painted kitchen:



Next, the living room (complete with cat):


And the dining room:


My Alex had his Senior Convocation this past Wednesday.  Here's a wonderful shot of him and his friends:


Here's a rare shot of the family paparazzo with a clearly frightened son:

I simply cannot believe that my boy is going to graduate this year!  I'm so proud of him and have floated the idea of having him and his future spouse move in with us!  Juan is not in agreement but we'll see.  Alex isn't too willing either!

Here is a very important sign.  Although I am in the minority here in my quite conservative neighborhood filled with McCain/Palin signs, I persevere in my liberal pronouncements:


I hope y'all have a wonderful Sunday!  See you in two months! (just kidding) (hopefully!)

What a couple of weeks!  I've been feeling terrible; I have unbelievable pain in joints that I didn't even know I had! Two weeks of Cipro for an infection (blah) and a terrible flare-up has made most of August pretty yucky.  If it weren't for my sweet baby Kaylin I don't know what I'd do!

She's 20 weeks already and she's the most wonderful baby in the world.  Here's a photo of her in her infant seat that has since been retired (she's just too big!):


She and I were practicing making raspberries today. She's REALLY laughing now with a deep gutteral HA!  I'm having so much fun with her and I miss her so much when she's not here.  She's going to start solid foods soon and I can't wait!  I just love seeing a messy baby with food everywhere tasting something for the first time.  We are having SO MUCH FUN!!!

Juanny is going to be off for the next 4 days and I'm very excited.  It's been a while since we spent that much time together and I can't wait.  Geez, I love that guy.

Have a great weekend!  Fall is ALMOST here and FOOTBALL!!  Woo hoo!!

Hi y'all!  I had an early doctor's appointment this morning at St. Mary's Hospital this morning. I was dangerously close to the Knitting Basket and decided to window shop. (yeah, right!)  I just love yarn stores; besides the obvious they just seem so warm and cozy.  This store is actually in the basement of the building which adds to the coziness.  Here's some photos of the sock yarn that I bought.
This is called Flat Feet.  It come prepainted (unlike Knit Picks' sock blanks) and this was the last one in the store:



It's not double-stranded like sock blanks which I like since I knit socks one at a time on DPN's.

I also got some Claudia Handpainted.  Mary of Mary's Virgin Wool bought me some last year and I'm addicted!  It's the Butter Pecan colorway:


Isn't it pretty? I also bought two skeins of a new yarn.  It's from Hand Painted Knitting Yarns.com.  It's a supersoft superwash merino donegal, hand painted in gorgeous colors.  The colorways are named for opera singers:


That's Nabucco on the top and Otello on the bottom.  Doesn't Otello look like watermelon?

Here are the stash photos I promised.  Please remind me every chance y'all get TO STOP BUYING MORE YARN.  Please?  The three small containers on the right are filled with just sock yarn. The others are one with cotton and cotton-blends, one with old Red Heartesque-yarns, the other eight are filled with wool and wool-blends.  This is my playroom-guest room-cat and rat  and general disarray room with one whole side reserved for my yarn addiction:



I'm sorry but now that you've seen my horror you must die.  Death will occur in 5,4,3,2,1.................!

Still there?  Enjoy your Thursday and thanks for visiting!

I started talking about my vegetable garden a few weeks ago and I wanted to show y'all how it's doing.  Here is a picture I took right after I planted it:


In the long containers are zucchini on the left and cucumbers on the right.  Across the top in the round pots are greenbeans, green peppers, tomatoes and a cayenne pepper plant.  The bottom row is the same except the pink pot has some strawberries.  The three small pots in the center (hard to see) is catnip, lavender and basil.

Here's what they look like today:


I've already gotten a ton of greenbeans, 7 green peppers and I'm on the cusp of getting zucchini and cucumbers:


I'm so excited!  Next year I'm going to plant a bigger garden in the ground and maybe try some other veggies.  Any suggestions?

And last but definately not least, here is my sweet Kaylin!  I've been sitting for her for that past month or so and while it's a lot of hard work, she's an angel and just I love love love her.  She's making me feel young again!


That's all for now!  I hope you have a wonderful Saturday!

Oh brother!  I spent the day at the hospital yesterday.  I've been having terrible pains in my chest, especially after eating.  I've been trying desperately to stay on my no-carb, high protein diet.  It's not easy, especially when your favorite foods all begin with the word cake.  I was doing pretty well until yesterday.

Juanny took me to the ER when I started having severe pain.  I went through the cardiac tests and (thankfully) it showed nothing.  I had pancreatic and gallbladder tests tests and again nothing.  It turns out that I have developed another ulcer in my esophagus.  I've had a hiatal hernia since I was a child and have taken medicine forever.  Apparently it wasn't strong enough and I've got another hole in my swiss-cheese-like esophagus.  When I got home I realized that it was JUNE 25, which means my streak of ending up ill and in the hospital in June of every year is still going strong.  Sigh. Why couldn't I do something cool like winning the lottery every June?

Anyway, I'll be enjoying my liquid diet for a few days (can you liquify cake?) so it can begin to heal.   I think I've got to spend the month of June from now on it a padded room with a straitjacket on.  I'm sure my kids would love that!!

Peace!

I have a ton of pictures so I thought I'd split this post into two parts, my front porch and my back porch.  Here is a photo of my front porch:

I've always wanted a big front porch!  Living in the South  just isn't the same without one.  Where would I drink all my Mint Juleps?  Please ignore the fact that it desperately needs to be powerwashed.  Here is a close up:

Impatiens have always grown really well here.  It doesn't get a lot of sun.  There is usually a cat or dog peeking out from the bottom pane of the window next to the door!
Here's the porch swing:

And the wicker rockers on the other side:
Here's my beautiful crabapple tree (one of two in the front yard):

And finally, my rose garden along the east side of my house.  Juan started buying me the mini rose bushes for Mother's Day each year after we moved in and planted them here.  Can you tell that pink is my favoite color?

I hope you enjoyed seeing my house and garden.  Tomorrow will be a tour of the back yard and my vegetable garden!

Have a great Friday and I'll see y'all tomorrow!